In 2022, 1.3 million refugees have arrived in Germany, including more than one million from Ukraine and 245,000 from other countries. Globally, 28.6 million people are currently living as refugees outside their country, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR)—24 percent more than the previous year. The war in Ukraine has caused this sharp increase, with nearly eight million people from Ukraine, mostly women and children, seeking protection in Europe.
War refugees from Ukraine are allowed to enter the European Union freely. Most of the refugees from other countries arrived via one of the routes that cross the Mediterranean Sea. About 100,000 people reached Italy and Malta, about 32,000 people reached Spain and the Canary Islands, and nearly 22,700 reached Greece and Cyprus. The Mediterranean routes remain extremely dangerous, with more than 2,000 people estimated to have died during the crossing in 2022, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Most asylum seekers in Germany from countries other than Ukraine came from Syria (70,976), Afghanistan (36,358), Turkey (23,938) and Iraq (15,175). About eleven percent of them were children of refugees born in Germany. Around 193,000 protection seekers from these countries actually entered Germany—around 58 percent more than in the previous year. Only in 2015 and 2016 was the number of asylum seekers higher, in 2016 about three times as high as in 2022.
Refugees from Ukraine do not have to apply for asylum in Germany. They are granted so-called temporary protection. Around 860,000 people have received or applied for this. Of the people from other countries who applied for asylum in Germany in 2022, more than half received a positive decision (around 128,500 people).
Of the approximately one million refugees from Ukraine, 120,000 have found a job in Germany. Another 183,000 refugees from Ukraine are registered as unemployed. Among refugees from other countries, the number has continued to rise. More than 600,000 people from “countries of origin of asylum” are now employed in Germany subject to social insurance contributions.
In 2022, 11,970 persons who were obliged to leave Germany were deported—about nine percent more than in the previous year. The number of people who left Germany voluntarily also increased—by 19 percent to around 7,000 people. 300,000 people live in Germany with a Duldung, of whom 56,000 are directly obliged to leave the country.
All these figures have been compiled by Mediendienst Integration from various sources and published on its website. To the complete research:
The most important asylum figures 2022 | Article | MEDIENDIENST INTEGRATION (mediendienst-integration.de)
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